After Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui led the team to retreat from the stone measuring station, they found a few guides from the villagers in front of the branch, and guided the troops to speed southwest along the country road between the mountains and ridges and the forks of the ditches and ditches under the cover of night.

The seizures are too rich, whether it is pack horses or donkey carts, they are all overloaded and burdened, not to mention the villagers who came to the front, that is, the soldiers have to carry ammunition boxes on their shoulders in addition to filling up bullet boxes, hanging grenades in their waists, carrying rifles on their backs. In addition, the Eighth Route Army had to take everything, even the steel rails had to be taken away, and the difficulty of the march can be imagined.

At first, I walked fast, but I walked slower and slower, and finally I had to rest every 2 miles of walking.

At this point, the independent battalion took the villagers to walk forty or fifty miles of mountain roads overnight, and arrived at Jingshang Village in the south of Shouyang and north of Xiaohe, an important tributary of the Fen River.

In December last year, the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, with the cooperation of the 115th Division, repelled the Japanese army's six-way siege in the south of Shouyang, and the anti-Japanese beacon fire was ignited on both sides of the Xiaohe River.

Seeing that it was not a way to go on like this, Xiao Siming immediately ordered to camp on the spot in Jingshang Village, bury the remains of the martyrs, and hide the steel rails.

Fortunately, the guide at the front station was familiar with this area, and the reconnaissance platoon of the vanguard of the independent battalion, the guard platoon, and the communication platoon in the team changed into the uniforms of the Eighth Route Army, so as to avoid misunderstanding.

Otherwise, when the local cadres and villagers saw that so many devils suddenly came, they would probably flee immediately.

It would be easy to do it with local cadres, who immediately went door-to-door to mobilize and purchased 10 coffins.

Xiao Siming took matters into his own hands, led the cadres to scrub the bodies of the sacrificed soldiers, changed into the uniforms of the Eighth Route Army, and went into the burial, choosing a hillside from north to south, and letting the engineer team dig the tomb, and when the tomb was completed, the martyrs would be buried. The graves are filled with wooden strips with the names of the martyrs, their place of origin, the time they joined the army, and the number of the troops, and the wooden strips are inserted into the graves to facilitate concealment and search for the troops after the victory in the future.

At this time, the independent battalion was not out of danger, and as soon as the day dawned, Japanese planes were flying east and west in the sky, and they were scouting and searching everywhere, looking for the Eighth Route Army retreating from the stone measuring station!

Not only the Japanese machine in the sky, Xiao Siming could think of it with his toes that the Japanese troops who withdrew from Zhengtai Road from Nianzigou must have gone out by separate routes at this time, pulling nets and sweeping on the north and south sides of the Zhengtai Road Stone Measuring Station, looking for traces of the independent battalion. Once the Japanese army hears the wind, they will definitely pounce on them like hungry wolves!

This place is too close to the stone measuring station, as long as the little devil knows that the Eighth Route Army attacking the stone measuring station is in Jingshang Village, he can immediately use a car to transport troops by road, and he can attack here in two or three hours.

Therefore, there was no gun salute at the funeral of the martyrs, and the officers and soldiers of the independent battalion only saluted with guns at the cemetery!

The steel rails brought back from the stone measuring station were also buried deep on the side of the martyrs' cemetery!

The troops were too tired, and after burying the bodies of the martyrs, they arranged sentry posts, and the troops camped in Jingshang Village.

This is in the base area, and the soldiers no longer have to sleep in the village, and they all live in the homes of the villagers!

When Xiao Siming woke up, it was already noon.

After getting up, I saw Wang Lushui drafting a telegram to the division headquarters.

Xiao Siming immediately reminded: "Political commissar, don't let the radio station turn on during the day!" The little devil is going crazy now, and as soon as the radio is turned on, the Japanese will know where we are. We are different from the past now, with so much baggage, if we can't run fast, we will definitely be bitten by little devils! ”

Wang Lushui didn't raise his head, and returned and said: "I am in a hurry to report to the division headquarters and ask the division headquarters to send troops to meet us." It's too dangerous to send so much loot just by relying on our own operations! ”

Xiao Siming didn't follow, and what he said was unquestionable: "That's not good!" To turn it on, you have to wait until it gets dark! ”

Wang Lushui was a little unconvinced, and asked, "Is it really that evil?" ”

Xiao Siming nodded, said no more, and went to wash.

was brushing her teeth, Mei Ying led two local cadres into the courtyard, and when she saw Xiao Siming brushing her teeth, Mei Ying led the two people into the house to see Wang Lushui.

Wang Lushui and Xiao Siming lived in the east wing of this fellow countryman's house, one Wang Lushui lived and one Xiao Siming lived, and there was a square table in the middle hall, and Wang Lushui climbed on the square table to draft telegrams.

When Xiao Siming brushed his teeth and returned to the house, Wang Lushui pointed to the two local cadres and introduced him: "Camp Chief Xiao, this is Secretary Li of the Shouyang County Party Committee, and this is the County Magistrate Su of the Lunan County Government. The two of them, together with the county party committee and the county government, also happened to be stationed in Jingshang Village, and they came to report on the local political power and the construction of the local armed forces! ”

Xiao Siming nodded, and after Secretary Li and County Magistrate Su greeted each other, they also sat down at the table, and opened their mouths to Mei Ying, "Go and see if you have a meal?" Let Chen Desheng bring the food here, and we will talk while eating! ”

Secretary Li and County Magistrate Su came to Wang Lushui and Xiao Siming to report their work, but they actually saw that the independent battalion was carrying so much baggage, and they wanted the main force to support a little weapons and ammunition!

Their requirements were not high, and they only wanted the troops to give them ten rifles, two pistols, and some ammunition. It means to arm the county government with a guard squad.

This request is really nothing for the current independent battalion, Wang Lushui was not even exempted from asking Xiao Siming's opinion, and directly agreed, saying that it was for 10 Jin rifles and two southern pistols of the Japanese army. 100 rounds each for rifles and pistols!

The matter was resolved so quickly, Secretary Li and County Magistrate Su were very happy, and after Chen Desheng, Guo Tian and Mei Ying brought the food, the four of them talked and ate.

Secretary Li is very talkative, said that before the Qiqi Lugou Bridge incident, the annual passenger traffic of the Zhengtai Railway has reached more than 1 million person-times, and the train is also divided into fast and slow trains, and the fare is divided into one, two, and third, and the cheapest third-class ticket is only 1.6 cents per person per kilometer, and the total number of kilometers from Taiyuan to Shijiazhuang is 238 kilometers, and the ticket price is only 3.8 yuan. Not to mention the rich, even the average banker, it is not difficult to take the train. It's a pity that the little devil came, and this Zhengtai Road became a tool for the Japanese army to transport troops and invade, which is really sad to think about. Fortunately, the independent battalion destroyed the stone measuring station and blew up the Taohe railway bridge, and the little devil is afraid that it will take a while to repair it!

Wang Lushui smiled and said that this time the little devil may have to spend a few months repairing the road!

Xiao Siming didn't want many people to know that the independent battalion was the Eighth Route Army unit that blocked the Japanese army and attacked the stone measuring station in Nianzigou, but it was impossible to keep this matter a secret. Not to mention, there are so many former fellows, someone will definitely say it inadvertently after going back!

After thinking about it, Xiao Siming said: "Secretary Li, County Magistrate Su, the combat operations of the troops are highly secretive. When I went back, I made it clear to the cadres and fellow villagers that we should pay attention to confidentiality. ”

Secretary Li said that now it is necessary to use the achievements of our army to encourage the people to rise up and unite in the war of resistance! After the Eighth Route Army won the battle, it should celebrate and publicize it to boost the morale of the people.

Xiao Siming said that the celebration is our own business, and the superiors will check it when publicizing, and they will not say which unit fought it! It's all from the point of view of confidentiality!

Secretary Li didn't say it anymore.

The county magistrate Su said that when he got up in the morning, he saw that the village was full of Japanese devils, and he was stunned, and the important organization broke through, but fortunately he heard that these Japanese devils were speaking Chinese, and he realized that it was the Eighth Route Army wearing Japanese military uniforms.

Speaking of this, the county magistrate Su said that there was a section chief of the Lunan County government who had gone to Japan to study and could speak fluent Japanese. There is also a clerk from the village office, and he can also speak Japanese. The last time the little devil came, he was asked to speak Japanese to deal with the devil!

Xiao Siming came to the spirit at once, and asked where is the person? Bring it to him!

Wang Lushui said that this time the camouflaged Japanese army's sneak attack on the stone measuring station was originally smooth, and the devil's first sentry was released. Unexpectedly, when it came to the second sentry, the devil sentry borrowed fire from our soldiers with cigarettes, but unfortunately our soldiers did not understand Japanese, which aroused the suspicion of the Japanese sentry and shot directly, resulting in a sneak attack that turned into a strong attack, killing ten soldiers and wounding twelve!

After eating this meal, the county magistrate Su patted his belly and said that since the Japanese army captured Taiyuan, he ate rice for the first time today, and it was still polished rice, which was much better than brown rice!

After saying that, County Magistrate Su went out and left, and went to find the section chief who could speak Japanese.

The county magistrate Su walked on the front foot, and Secretary Li followed and said: "Political Commissar Wang, this section chief has a special identity, he is a member of the Kuomintang, he turned out to be a teacher of Shouyang No. 1 High School, and his family has a grain store in Daoping Village and a commercial bank in Xiluo. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he participated in anti-Japanese propaganda, and later joined the anti-Japanese team and donated all the grain stores and good commercial houses at home. More than 1,000 stones were donated for food alone. This kind of person, it's better not to see Camp Commander Xiao! ”

Secretary Li said that Xiao Siming remembered that the county magistrate of Su later wrote an article in Cangjing, recalling the situation of adhering to the Shouyang War of Resistance, which recorded a relatively famous event in the history of the Shouyang War of Resistance, that is, the Cui Zhao incident. Both of these men were anti-Japanese cadres with a sense of national justice, and when they spoke at the "May Day" meeting of the Lunan County Government, they both said that "it is not enough for the working class to defeat Japanese imperialism, but also to defeat the capitalists in the end." As a result, he was arrested and shot to death by Secretary Li on charges of "sabotaging the united front and being suspected of being a Trotskyist."

This Japanese-speaking section chief should be called Zhao Changshou!

As soon as he thought of this, Xiao Siming said slowly: "There is a shortage of Japanese language instructors in the independent camp, let me see how the section chief you are talking about, if it is okay, let him come to the independent camp as a Japanese language teacher." As for the fact that he is a member of the Kuomintang, let's go back and investigate! ”

Secretary Li didn't know Wang Lushui and Xiao Siming, and I didn't know that the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army had formed a new independent battalion, so Xiao Siming said this, and Secretary Li had nothing to say!

When Dingwang Lushui, Secretary Li, and Xiao Siming all finished eating, County Magistrate Su led a young man of twenty-seven or eight years old in, and he was introduced, and it was indeed Zhao Changshou!

Xiao Siming came up and asked, "I lack an instructor here to ask the soldiers to learn Japanese, are you willing to do it?" ”